Sunday, May 13, 2007

Shortcut Icons

Are some of you dependent on the keyboard? Well, I am and I am always on a lookout for keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of the shortcuts that i always use.

These are the desktop shortcuts:

Shutdown

  1. On a clear area on your desktop, right-click the mouse and Goto New -> Shortcut
  2. Enter shutdown -s -t 00 for the Command Line
  3. Name the shortcut Shutdown Workstation (or any other name you find appropriate)

Restart

  1. On a clear area on your desktop, right-click the mouse and Goto New -> Shortcut
  2. Enter shutdown -r -t 00 for the Command Line
  3. Name the shortcut Restart Workstation (or any other name you find appropriate)

Logoff

  1. On a clear area on your desktop, right-click the mouse and Goto New -> Shortcut
  2. Enter shutdown -l -t 00 for the Command Line
  3. Name the shortcut Logoff Workstation (or any other name you find appropriate)

Lock

  1. On a clear area on your desktop, right-click the mouse and Goto New -> Shortcut
  2. Enter rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation for the Command Line
  3. Name the shortcut Lock Workstation (or any other name you find appropriate)

Sleep

  1. On a clear area on your desktop, right-click the mouse and Goto New -> Shortcut
  2. Enter rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState for the Command Line
  3. Name the shortcut Sleep Workstation (or any other name you find appropriate)

2 comments:

athulican said...

chantc,

When I right-click on Local Drive (C:) and select properties, then "Disk Cleanup" on some PCs (or I think it's Windows), it hangs forever. I've search and found that there is a registry fix for that as a bug in WinXP (?). Do you know of any other way to fix this problem without resorting to registry tweaking? Thanks!

Regards,
kanglc

chantc said...

Hmm... Why don't you try this.
- Start > Run
- Type "cleanmgr c: /sageset:0

Tick the places that you want the clean up manager to clear. You can tick all if you want.

After that:
- Start > Run
- Type "cleanmgr c: /sagerun:0

See if it works. If it doesn't, then I'm afraid you will need the patch.

This is actually one of my tips still in my storage. :) Just hope it helps you. Will post this up when I have time.

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